Posted in Chuck Mintzlaff, friendship, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Mark Rashid, Michael Bevilacqua, natural horsemanship, Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2017
“You have a leadership problem with your horse. Your horse does not recognise you as a leader.” Your trainer may have said this to you on occasion or something similar to it. As a result, you may have shrunk into your shell and seized the first opportunity to slink off quietly to find a quiet […]
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Posted in Chuck Mintzlaff, Equine Touch, Friendship Training, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Mark Rashid, Michael Bevilacqua, Nevzorov, riding, Stormy May on Apr 16th, 2014
My last post (Towards Riding 1 – The Horse) elicited two comments which have profoundly affected my thoughts in the past few weeks and in doing so have helped create the basis for this post. The first comment came from Peggy on the east coast of Australia and it is this: “if you have a […]
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Posted in body awareness, Carolyn Resnick, Chuck Mintzlaff, Corroboree Equus, Frédéric Pignon, Friendship Training, Horses, Humans, Imke Spilker, Intuition, Jasmijn Wauters, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Mark Rashid, Michael Bevilacqua, Nevzorov, Noora Ehnqvist, spiritual awareness, Travel on Sep 14th, 2013
As we move into the latter half of September, I am acutely conscious of a convergence of developments which are inviting me to contemplate what is required of the human, if the latter is to become someone whom a horse wishes to be with. Not only does this question penetrate to the core of my […]
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In the past few months Vicki and I have embarked on yet another path to the horse, one that has led me to contemplate all the other paths that we have followed, and which have ultimately brought us full circle to the human whom we aspire to be. Before devoting a post to this, I […]
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In 2010 Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling published a book called It is Not I Who Seek the Horse, the Horse Seeks Me, in which he rejects conventional and natural horsemanship, proposing instead a way which facilitates the free development of the horse. Ten years earlier Mark Rashid had already done the same in essence, when he […]
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